Algo a destacar es la gran caida de hashrate que hemos visto hace poco que justamente se dio a la misma vez practicamente que el lanzamiento official de BAKKT. De hecho creo que fui el primero en el foro de comentar esta caida. Estoy tratando de averiguar que puede haber hecho que caiga el hashrate. Solo he encontrado una noticia que relaciona un periodo de mantenimiento de una mineria en Kazakhstan en estas fechas. Fuera de esto, las especulaciones al respecto estan a la orden del dia. Desde que hay una manipulacion de mineros para aprovecharse y generar traccion en un trade tipico de "sell the news" y shortear a fondo (con la caida de hashrate justo durante el lanzamiento de BAKKT tendriamos una manipulacion mental del mercado haciendo un efecto bola de nieve). Ya sea o no en colaboracion con el mismo BAKKT que lo veo dificil pero no imposible.

Por si a alguien le interesa, la compañia que emitio el comunicado es "Square Mining Ltd.". A mi me parece muy raro todo esto. Podemos estar ante la tipica caida drastica que se recupera rapido. Si no lo hace, es posible que estemos en bear hasta que el halving surta efecto.

I can see betting games being formed in relation to how long will Tyson Fury take off the game to heal from such massive pierces. Bone was exposed, it was really dangerous to keep that fight going. We saw once again the big machinery of boxing at work, the wouldn't let another flop happening, Tyson was needed to win. Most fighters would have thrown the towel, but Fury's heart is unmatched.

My oiriginal bet still stands: I believe Fury will push Wilder to a decision again, and this time Fury will get an UD. Wilder got pretty much outboxed, but got a single punch, just like Wallins got a lucky punch that cut him, but skills wise, both got exposed.

What's important is knowing what caused this. I don't believe in coincidences. Looks like the schelude is right on time for BAKKT launch. Picking up cheap coins to meet contract needs? remember that BAKKT needs to buy Bitcoin as opposed to what was out there thus far on this field. Those people could have contacts with miners. Only a big miner could have done this. I don't believe this is a mistake by a website and the rest are following. Or it just could be good ol "short the news" op.

Maybe it could be related to this:

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/09/19/1918342/0/en/Squire-Mining-Operations-Undergo-Temporary-Power-Outage.html


But then again, how big would Kazakhstan be on the mining game to make such a dip?

I just saw a big drop in hashrate, check this chart:



It's clearly visible from the all time chart, pretty big cut right a couple of hours ago. Upon closer inspection:



From 98EH/s to 63EH/s, we are looking at probably an entire farm being shut down. It's either authorities, an accident, or resetting all systems at once. Hopefully one of our chinese friends can tell us something and report back, because who else is dealing with this hashrate? I know McAffee had something going on but I doubt it's that relevant.

Bakkt se supone que a diferencia de la alternativa del NYSE, en este servicio se estarian comprando las cantidades reales de Bitcoin para cerrar los contratos y se enviarian bitcoins directamente a los participantes, en lugar de nunca comprar BTC y hacerlo todo por fiat como se venia haciendo. Si hay grandes posiciones se compraran grandes cantidades y se traducira en el precio aunque es posible que lo compren OTC. No se realmente de donde sacaran las cantidades que se necesiten para cerrar las posiciones y pagar a acreedores.

Hay que tener en cuenta que mucha gente quiere exponerse al mercado de BTC pero no quiere exponerse al riesgo de tener que guardarlos ellos mismos y pone la confianza a un tercero para que los salvaguarde por ellos, como ya pasa con el oro.

A mi me parece el tipico articulo de "tecnologia blockchain" sin profundizar mucho. Aun no he visto ningun articulo mainstream que deje claro que el termino blockchain, si no esta ligado a un token que sea decentralizado y sea un metodo para incentivar la sostebinilidad de la red, como es el caso de Bitcoin, y este es el unico caso. El resto de aplicaciones de la blockchain, no he visto aun que tenga un objetivo claro o justificacion para venderlo como algo revolucionario. Solo veo articulos vendiendo este tipo de humo.

La realidad es que bitcoin es la unica aplicacion de la blockchain y el resto son cosas negligibles. Puede que haya algun tipo de beneficio en alguna instancia pero estamos hablando de mejorar una gestion de una base de datos vs una red decentralizada de dinero inconfiscable, es ridiculo que esto no se le deje claro a la gente en la prensa mainstream pero es lo que hay.

Theres a dAPP that does exactly this:

You can learn about timenoddes and it's pretty straight forward, it's all on the github documentation.

Also look at this for an alternative: https://mycrypto.com/

Or txpool API:

Txpool


Many ways to do this.

They want a new posterboy and looks like Adesananya is going to be one of the future cash cows in the game. Dana White wants to build an undefeated record for him, but now we are going to see his first test. He has started beef with Jon Joes, I think he is delusional. If he doesn't continue picking up his fight in a smart way he is going to end up with a big 1 in his record.

https://www.mmafighting.com/2019/4/12/18308191/jon-jones-responds-israel-adesanya-ufc

He would need to bulk to light heavyweight wereas Jones is a natural light heavyweight fighter. He can never beat him.

If you were forced at gunpoint to deliver a password, it would be useful to have an alternative that isn't either take a possible beating/end up dead or either hand your hard earned money to said attacker. Right now with wallet.dat we don't have either a way to self destruct or a way to open an alternative empty wallet, or something like that. So I guess people is relying on FDE with hidden volumes? But that has been proven to be demonstrable that the drive contains hidden data. I was wondering if with a contained file like wallet.dat you could hide hidden data. I think Truecrypt volumes are safe when it comes to hidden data but not FDE and you must open the file anyway. I think plausible denniability methods of protection for wallet.dat is worth exploring.

If you have a proper backup setup then entering the password incorrectly by mistake shouldn't be a problem.

Im way more interested in the BMF belt than whatever UFC 243 has to offer. Adensanya is a pretty good up and coming prospect, but im not confident giving him a win. He hasn't proved to be a draw yet IMO. I don't want my cashflow to get destroyed by doing an unlucky win bet in this one. Sure he's got Anderson and Gastelum on his belt but that isn't enough to start thinking this guy is going to become another cash cow in which you can bet for wins blindfolded Jon Jones style, and that is what some people is trying to sell me, and im still not buying. Let's see how he performs with Whittaker. After 2 Joel wins, if he ends this easily, I may consider him the next safe bet in the game, just like Khabib and Jones.

The idea is that if someone is constantly failing to enter the correct password to unlock the wallet, the funds would move to an address of choice (which cannot be changed unless you own the password). Another option would be to self destruct the wallet.dat. The point is to avoid people to stop trying to bruteforce the thing. The problem is how to even go about this since someone could just use another client which doesn't have this feature assuming it got added in a Core update. It would at least IMO protect against non sophisticated attackers.

I know something that has low transaction fees, low transaction time, and scales, it's called fiat. You could argue about electricity consumption, however NANO network is tiny. You are also assuming that NANO is truly decentralized. Until NANO or whatever altcoin you want to offer, hasn't had a multi billion $ marketcap with 0 hacks through a decade, and has been attempted to be subverted via forks, then your coin is pretty much worthless and definitely not a BTC replacement.

See this:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/6b8a5ab622e5c9386c872036646bf94da983b190/doc/README


Summary from PWiulle:

It seems I didn't see the rules were changed and didn't make the minimum amount of posts. Do I lose my spot?

Congratulations on the winners. Looks like I'll see a sha-256 collision before I get a slot in here :p

Just saw this one. Not a bad post per se, but I find it funny due the dodgy grammar:


Looks like kissing interests are what is disrupting the altcoin market, of all things. I can't think of a valid context where that word comes from.

I offered you the only sane argument I can think off: Whales which are still stuck within the 2017 crash holding huge amounts of altcoin bags, planning to do the last exist scam within the next Bitcoin rally. As noobs look at "coinmarketcap" while Bitcoin is on mainstream news when it's about to hit ATH as usual, those whales may attempt to confuse the noob by luring them into buying some of those pumping shitcoins, only to dump on them bigly. This may be the last time for bagholders to leave the crazy train formerly known as "cryptocurrency diversification".

Other than this theoretical exit scam pump, I can't think of fundamentals strong enough for altcoins to maintain any sort of positive traction long end, and this includes Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and the usual suspects. The ball is on your court to argument why should anyone bother having serious long term hold positions on any of that.

I don't think you can extrapolate the remaining half of the blockchain by what amount of time it took to get the first half downloaded. Consider this:

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,all

Unfortunately there isn't older charts that collect this data that I know of, but by looking at that you can see the all time peaks of 2017 during the $20k bubble, that mix of legit traffic + Ver and Bitmain spamming makes that section of the blockchain specially slow to synch in my experience. Maybe it was because it's an HDD and you notice this section less with SSD. When I find some free time I will try for myself and monitor the full sync time and report back.

I almost had a heart attack watching this. Vegas was going crazy the night of the fight when Tyson got that massive cut, TWICE on the same eye. The fight was really near to TKO stoppage which would mean three things:

1) Tyson losses his undefeated record
2) The Wilder rematch gets possibly ruined
3) Massive, epic loses on the gambling scene, and massive wins as well

However there are great news with this bout: This confirms that there isn't room for rigged fights in elite boxing. You couldn't script that mess of a fight. I was expecting a boring one sided match and those cuts made my cortisol rise for the remaining of the fight as we were about to witness the biggest upset ever in possibly any sports.

Stop deluding yourselves, the altcoin market is not coming back, and if it does come back, you better dump whatever you have left because there are no chances of it pumping ever again beyond an exit scam. Smart money has learned to stop pumping shitcoins. Altcoin continue to sink against BTC. Dollar valuations don't matter because altcoins have no liquidity outside of BTC, so with BTC pairs going down you are going to lose purchasing power during the process. And still, they eventually keep going down against assorted fiats too.

Bottomline is, you are holding a massive hot potatoes bag by having a diversified "crypto portfolio" in altcoins. Sure there will always be the odd ones that pump, but that's worse than going to the casino. You might as well trade regulated penny stocks if you want to bet on low caps going to the moon, where there are less chances of getting screwed over by massive scammers. At least you surely lower exchange rate risk (and most of those shitcoins are listed in shady exchanges).